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ce ao . . oo 2 | CO, His preparation for his twenty~three years on this Court thus tran- scended his wide and varied experience in practice which had ‘brought him to the front of his profession. But in the practice the same qualities stood forth: there was the battle for cheap insurance which led to the adoption of the savings banks insurance legislation in Massachusetts; the successful cal paien for lower gas rates in Boston; the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation which resulted in centering public attention on the vital need of immediate and effec- tive conservation programs; his chairmanship of the board of arbitration an the needle trades; his representation of the interests of consumers and viork= men in many fields. Although he was frugal and ascetic, living a life of steady concen= ‘tration and immense work on the problems before him, his singleness of purpose never limited the friendly sympathy of his nature, or the curiosity of his mind, He was without prejudices, as he was without clichés, The asceticism, and his fundamentally moral outlook gave him in the eyes of ‘many of his friends the quality of a saint, Mr. Justice Holmes felt this reverence for his younger associate, ‘Whenever he left my house," Holmes wrote of him in 1932, "I was likely to say to my wife, 'There goes a really good man, ..!' In the moments of discouragement that we all pass through, he always has had the happy word that lifts up one’s heart. It came from knowledge, experience, Courage, and the high way in which he always has taken life." Yet Justice Brandeis had none of the mystic essence which we associa} with sainthood, He was practical, realistic, patient, persistent. He : | the mind of a trained social scientist to the analysis of legal op} RE decision, a method which is bedutifully illustrated in his brief 4 the Oregon law fixing a ten-hour day for women wage earners. Thre the law; the other ninety-seven diagnose factory conditions and theiz \ \ ‘